AI
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Meta has partnered with Lumen Technologies to “significantly increase” its network capacity to meet the increased demand for its AI models and services.
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Tech Mahindra has opened a Centre of Excellence (CoE) powered by Nvidia AI Enterprise and Omniverse platforms.
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Latin American data centre operator ODATA unveiled plans to construct two facilities in Colombia to provide 144MW of connectivity to the region.
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Nokia has partnered with Lenovo to offer data centre solutions designed to meet increasing demand for AI workloads.
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Oriole Networks, a startup developing photonic networking technologies, has secured $22 million in funding to address the growing data centre demands driven by AI workloads.
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Lightmatter, a startup developing computing hardware that uses light instead of electricity has raised $400 million with its valuation soaring to $4.4 billion.
Forthcoming events
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In this episode of the Digital Digest we roundup the biggest stories of the week from the latest on DigitalBridge's EdgePoint to the dawn of quantum computing as-a-service.
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Raxio Group is continuing its pan-African expansion by announcing its next carrier neutral data centre investment in Mozambique.
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Vantage Data Centers has broken ground on both its Berlin and Warsaw campuses, which are part of its ongoing $2 billion European expansion programme.
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Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister has completed a complete reshuffle of his cabinet seeing 36 new ministers appointed.
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Cloud data management and security services vendor Acronis has appointed hosting industry veteran Patrick Pulvermueller as its new CEO.
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Nordics data centre operator DigiPlex has been acquired by US investment firm IPI Partners for an undisclosed sum.
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Russia's mobile operator MTS has acquired the GreenBush data centre in Moscow, which was opened in 2018 as part of a first phase development.
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IXcellerate in Russia has appointed Andrei Aksenov as its new chief executive officer.
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Adaire Fox-Martin has been appointed EMEA cloud president at Google Cloud.
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The Global Partnership for Ethiopia (GPE) has appointed Anwar Soussa as the managing director (MD) of the operating company in Ethiopia.
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The runaway growth in data centres, cloud operators, submarine cables and internet exchanges across southern Europe is featured in a new map.
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Cloud and managed service providers are still waiting for a ransomware security update from software provider Kaseya, whose customers have been struck by a hack to the management software it distributes.